Can we talk about Germany for a bit?

[s3fella]

Sam All said:

del mar said:

http://dailytimes.com.pk/world/07-Jun-16/germany-e...

If true I am gong to convert ....

It's a wind up - in any case the EU council/committee would take a few years to sanction this and the Sunni:Shia st would confuse them too.

I think the word "tax" would be far more confusing to our migrant friends.

[Du1point8]

400 members of the Familiensport-und FKK-Bund Waldteichfreunde Moritzburg nudist group are not happy that a refugee camp is being built nearby as they believe it will lead to sex assaults.

Kerstin Thoens, a spokeswoman for the district office of Meissen regional council, also said a large privacy screen would be erected to help further put the nudists at ease. She said: 'With mutual respect and tolerance there is certainly a way for peaceful coexistence.'

You could not make this crap up.

[irocfan]

Northern Munkee said:

I was very similar when McDonalds breakfast menu ended at 10.30. I'd just burn down the place if I hadn't got my sausage and egg mcmuffin.

[Digga]

Du1point8 said:

400 members of the Familiensport-und FKK-Bund Waldteichfreunde Moritzburg nudist group are not happy that a refugee camp is being built nearby as they believe it will lead to sex assaults.

Kerstin Thoens, a spokeswoman for the district office of Meissen regional council, also said a large privacy screen would be erected to help further put the nudists at ease. She said: 'With mutual respect and tolerance there is certainly a way for peaceful coexistence.'

You could not make this crap up.

It is literally one set of leftist ideals tearing another apart. It would be amusing if it weren't so downright dangerous and inevitable in its ultimate conclusion.

[Mothersruin]

Digga said:

Du1point8 said:

400 members of the Familiensport-und FKK-Bund Waldteichfreunde Moritzburg nudist group are not happy that a refugee camp is being built nearby as they believe it will lead to sex assaults.

Kerstin Thoens, a spokeswoman for the district office of Meissen regional council, also said a large privacy screen would be erected to help further put the nudists at ease. She said: 'With mutual respect and tolerance there is certainly a way for peaceful coexistence.'

You could not make this crap up.

It is literally one set of leftist ideals tearing another apart. It would be amusing if it weren't so downright dangerous and inevitable in its ultimate conclusion.

It will get nasty when someone goes off half cocked.

[PRTVR]

Just had a report from a friend who is in Berlin, he has just been mugged and robbed, he has visited Berlin many times before and really loved the place, but never again,he said it is full of migrants beggars perfecting the pickpocketing skills along with gang muggings, not a safe place to be, what the fk has Merkel done to Germany.

[Trabi601]

PRTVR said:

Just had a report from a friend who is in Berlin, he has just been mugged and robbed, he has visited Berlin many times before and really loved the place, but never again,he said it is full of migrants beggars perfecting the pickpocketing skills along with gang muggings, not a safe place to be, what the fk has Merkel done to Germany.

I've been once a year for the past few years and not seen anything to worry me, so far - have things deteriorated badly over the past 12 months, or has he just been hanging out in the wrong places?

The only parts of Berlin where I felt a little uncomfortable were when I went exploring the derelict tower block complexes near Alexanderplatz - but that was because there were lots of drunk Ruskis hanging around.

[Hugo a Gogo]

http://www.numbeo.com/crime/city_result.jsp?countr...

[TheLordJohn]

PRTVR said:

Just had a report from a friend who is in Berlin, he has just been mugged and robbed, he has visited Berlin many times before and really loved the place, but never again,he said it is full of migrants beggars perfecting the pickpocketing skills along with gang muggings, not a safe place to be, what the fk has Merkel done to Germany.

I served in Germany for several years a while back and loved it.
Took my wife to a Christmas market last Winter in Stuttgart; aside from the obvious car museums and the botanical gardens, I didn't like much of what i saw...

[EnglishTony]

Hold the front page, tourist gets mugged.
By poor people.

[irocfan]

is it any worse than any large English city though? It'll seem a little alien to ze Chermans because they're not really used to seeing such a diverse multitude of cultures which could feel threatening

[Mothersruin]

Have any of you been to any provincial towns in Germany over the last 20 years?

Massive Turk problem.

[PRTVR]

EnglishTony said:

Hold the front page, tourist gets mugged.
By poor people.

Quite correct, you have lots more poor people in your country now so crime will go up, is that good?

[speedyman]

So not confined to Germany then, here's our ungratful lot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36507138

[Hugo a Gogo]

Mothersruin said:

Have any of you been to any provincial towns in Germany over the last 20 years?

Massive Turk problem.

in what way?

[anonymous-user]

speedyman said:

So not confined to Germany then, here's our ungratful lot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36507138

I'm sure it all a cultural misunderstanding............

[Digga]

TheLordJohn said:

I served in Germany for several years a while back and loved it.
Took my wife to a Christmas market last Winter in Stuttgart; aside from the obvious car museums and the botanical gardens, I didn't like much of what i saw...

Working in Munich a couple of months back, I visited Stuttgart - to go to the Porsche museum - and did find the centre looked a bit down at heel. I know train stations are often pretty grim and I have no previous visits to the centre to compare to, but (and although I've lived in the sticks for years I've spent enough time in cities all over the world and lived in one as a student, so I like yo think I'm streetwise) it looked like it had the potential to be unpleasant.

[Trabi601]

Digga said:

TheLordJohn said:

I served in Germany for several years a while back and loved it.
Took my wife to a Christmas market last Winter in Stuttgart; aside from the obvious car museums and the botanical gardens, I didn't like much of what i saw...

Working in Munich a couple of months back, I visited Stuttgart - to go to the Porsche museum - and did find the centre looked a bit down at heel. I know train stations are often pretty grim and I have no previous visits to the centre to compare to, but (and although I've lived in the sticks for years I've spent enough time in cities all over the world and lived in one as a student, so I like yo think I'm streetwise) it looked like it had the potential to be unpleasant.

To be fair, Stuttgart is an industrial city, so it's like a German coming over here and expecting Sunderland to be a tourist trap.

When I went to Stuttgart a couple of years ago, most of the city was being dug up for redevelopment, traffic was a nightmare, even on a bike.

[Digga]

Bit between the platforms and the station buildings was undergoing total excavation in April. Work ongoing!

[Don1]

Because free speech. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36509914